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| The MTT Scene - April 2006 |
 The World Series of Poker...online qualifiers. The ITH Poker League...awarding a Main Event freeroll. The 2006 IPOY race...crowning the best internet tournament player. Turbo rebuy strategy...all of this is enough to write a book, but bandwidth restricts us to this column. Read, enjoy, and prosper. ITH Poker League Reaches the Halfway Mark Two months have passed in the ITH Poker League, and 818 unique players have registered in at least one event. The top 27 overall point totals will play for a $2500 World Series of Poker travel/entry package. As of April 1st, Ohjay continues to lead the pack after two months, but many other places in the top ten have changed hands. Patch, DSpitler, evv98, nsidestrate, and 86fxrd remain in the top ten, and are joined by new leaderboard members McFoldem, rocketplayer, SPU_MAN, and suitedpair. Winners of each tournament and monthly league winners qualify for a freeroll that will award a $12,000 World Series of Poker Main Event package. Additional prizes include stakes in Matthew Hilger's World Series entry, free Poker Tutor lessons, and cash. 2006 IPOY Race Continues freshfish952 still enjoys a commanding lead in the ITH Internet Player of the Year standings. The IPOY scores players based on their finishes in all of the largest regular online tournaments, plus many special events as well. One such special event is the Paradise Masters Week, which just finished. A list of all the included tournaments with satellites can be found here. ITH Members Seek WSOP Entries Most of the discussions in the ITH MTT Forum and Forum Chatroom recently have been concerning WSOP satellites and sub-satellites. A look at the WSOP offerings of PokerStars and Party Poker follows, and this month's Strategy Corner discusses Turbo Rebuy qualifiers. Largest WSOP Feeder Sites Announce Satellites Party Poker and PokerStars have placed more players in the WSOP Main Event than any other site in recent years, with PokerStars supplying about twenty per cent of the 2005 field. Both sites delighted players in March by announcing their 2006 WSOP satellite structure. The sites offer similar prize packages: a $10,000 entry, $1,000 cash for travel expenses, and paid hotel accomodations valued at $1,000. PokerStars gives winners the option of taking an additional $1,000 in lieu of the hotel accomodations. Both sites require winners to wear logo apparel for the duration of the event. Party Poker offers players more tournaments on a weekly basis, with two MTTs daily awarding the WSOP package, and the constant availability of Steps Sit-and-Go tournaments.  Party also runs 12 daily freerolls; each awards 50 seats to a Saturday final. These 3600 players compete for twenty totally free WSOP entries, including one entry to the $50,000 HORSE event, nine entries to the Main Event, and ten $2000 Preliminary Event entries. PokerStars is far and away the most popular site for WSOP hopefuls. The largest satellite, the Sunday evening $650 MTT, had a prize pool of 33 WSOP entries for 606 players in its March 26 running. Frequent players at VIP levels should check for special freerolls which may be available to them. Players who qualify via Stars and make the final table of the Main Event will find their winnings supplemented by up to $1 Million. PokerStars is the only site offering the Double Shootout format for WSOP qualifiers. The qualifying options are shown below:  Strategy Corner The previous two Strategy Corners have addressed bubble play in flat-payout satellite tournaments. There is one topic yet to cover, and that is the sometimes-frustrating concept of stalling. It seems counter-intuitive in the age of internet poker to deliberately stall. After all, time limits and act-in-turn buttons have sped up the game to the point where even 100 hands per hour is not impossible. There is one time when stalling becomes de rigueur, and that is in the closing moments of a satellite MTT. A player on a very short stack when approaching the final few spots is probably best served by stalling for every possible second in order to delay the arrival of the blinds. In a turbo MTT, when the blinds increase every five minutes, it is not unheard of for the blinds to increase every two hands when several players are stalling. If you have less than the blinds and antes at the next blind level, but very few players remain to be eliminated (about 1 place per three tables per hand is a reasonable guide), then you are probably best served by stalling, folding out, and hoping that enough other short stacks bust out before you. It is a good plan to discuss MTT strategy in the ITH MTT Forum and ITH Forum Chat. Experienced players there can guide you through the minefield of these intense tournaments. |
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